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Paul Mulholland

Paul Mulholland

Senior Research Fellow

Professional biography

Paul Mulholland's research is concerned with developing computational tools and methods to help people make sense of information, and develop and express their ideas. He has been a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 12 national or European projects delivering outcomes including: technologies for the visitor use of archives and museum collections, mobile applications for formal and informal learning; automated narrative generation tools; and semantic and knowledge technologies for school and work-based learning. He has a first degree in psychology, a Masters degree in computing and PhD in cognitive science. He has published over 100 conference and journal articles. 

As part of the EU-funded project PlaceMUS XR: Digital Journeys across Musical Places in Europe and Extended Realities, he is involved in the development of musical tools, interfaces and instruments aimed at deepening active musical engagement for all - including people with little or no musical training, people with physical or sensory disabilities and anyone learning or playing existing musical instruments.

As part of the European Union Horizon 2020 SPICE project he was working on tools and methods to support Citizen Curation, in which citizens are supported in developing personal interpretations of cultural artefacts, sharing their own perspective and understanding the perspectives of others. 

Within the European Union Horizon 2020 Polifonia project he was working on the use of visualisation, gesture and haptic interfaces to create novel ways of interacting with musical content.

Research interests

My research falls in the areas of technology enhanced learning, human computer interaction, museum informatics, digital humanities and music computing.

Latest publications

Displaying 10 of 182 publications

  • Picca, D., Antonini, A., Mulholland, P. and Pisarski, M., 2026, ‘Introduction to the Special Issue on Hypermedia Systems’, ACM Transactions on the Web, 20(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/111649/.
  • Herodotou, C., Gaved, M., Shrestha, S., Comfort, C., Maguire, C., Sides, T., Kwarteng, J., Bayer, V., Lee, J., Mulholland, P. and Fernandez, M., 2025, ‘Student-Facing Dashboard - Scale up’, Insights from the second year of implementation. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK., https://oro.open.ac.uk/106146/.
  • Dupras, M., Holland, S. and Mulholland, P., 2025, ‘Using the Electric Guitar as a Live Coding Interface’, in 9th International Conference on Live Coding 2025 (ICLC2025), 27-31 May 2025, Barcelona, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/104665/.
  • Samela, L., Daga, E. and Mulholland, P., 2025, ‘Investigating vividness bias in language models through art interpretations’, in Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering (ELMKE), 26 Nov 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands., https://oro.open.ac.uk/101364/.
  • Herodotou, C., Carr, J., Shrestha, S., Comfort, C., Bayer, V., Maguire, C., Lee, J., Mulholland, P. and Fernandez, M., 2025, ‘Prescriptive analytics motivating distance learning student action: A case study of a student-facing dashboard’, in LAK25: The 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2025), 03-07 Mar 2025, Dublin, Ireland., https://oro.open.ac.uk/102277/.
  • Herodotou, C., Shrestha, S., Comfort, C., Fernandez, M., Andrews, H., Mulholland, P., Bayer, V., Maguire, C. and Lee, J., 2025, ‘A participatory approach to designing a student-facing dashboard for online and distance education’, Journal of Learning Analytics, 12(2), pp. 158–174., https://oro.open.ac.uk/104055/.
  • Carvalho, J., Daga, E., Mulholland, P., Asprino, L., Uwasomba, C., Daquino, M., Gangemi, A., Maguire, M. and Stoneman, A., 2024, ‘Integrating Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives with a Linked Non-Open Data Hub’, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 17(4), https://oro.open.ac.uk/100981/.
  • Bayer, V., Mulholland, P., Hlosta, M., Farrell, T., Herodotou, C. and Fernandez, M., 2024, ‘Co‐creating an equality diversity and inclusion learning analytics dashboard for addressing awarding gaps in higher education’, British Journal of Educational Technology, 55(5), pp. 2058–2074., https://oro.open.ac.uk/98718/.
  • Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Daga, E. and Asprino, L., 2024, ‘Path-based and triplification approaches to mapping data into RDF: User behaviours and recommendations’, Semantic Web, 15(6), pp. 2479–2505., https://oro.open.ac.uk/99559/.
  • Mulholland, P., Van Kranenburg, P., Carvalho, J. and Daga, E., 2024, ‘Supporting the End-User Curation of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs’, in 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '24), 10-13 Sep 2024, Poznań, Poland., https://oro.open.ac.uk/99120/.